🫒 Join us on Thurs., June 6 for Food That Rocks, a tasting event celebrating Sandy Springs’ diverse restaurant scene. This one-of-a-kind food festival brings incredible energy to City Springs where you’ll sip, savor, and celebrate the community’s vibrant culinary scene.

Get unlimited tastes from some of the area’s best restaurants and bakeries; and more than a dozen wine, beer, and cocktail tastings. The evening also includes live music from Oxford Soul, and an array of interactive experiences.

🎉 Food That Rocks is a “Party with a Purpose” in partnership with the Community Assistance Center and Second Helpings Atlanta.

🎟️ Get your tickets today!

2. Boozy strolls allowed in Dresden District

🍹 The first open container district in Brookhaven officially opened on Friday in an effort to boost economic development and pedestrian traffic on Dresden Drive, an area Mayor John Park calls the “heart of the city.” 

Within the Dresden District, pedestrians may walk around with alcoholic beverages from a participating establishment between the hours of 9 a.m. and 10 p.m. The drink, no more than 16 oz., must be contained and consumed in an official Dresden District cup.

“The goal of the district is to add to the appeal of the Dresden corridor as a neighborhood destination,” said District 2 Councilwoman Jennifer Owens. “Encouraging our residents to enjoy all the amenities this vibrant area has to offer strengthens our community as a whole.”

🍻 Read Logan C. Ritchie’s report here.

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🛑 The newly opened Porterhouse Grill was shut down by Brookhaven Police for operating without a business license. 

3. As British pubs struggle, the pint turns 200

🇵🇬 Hundreds of people are feared dead after a landslide in a remote part of Papua New Guinea.

🇲🇽 Mexico is being hit by record heat, whirlwinds, and hail.

🇬🇧 The pint of beer turns 200 this year. Although Britons had been entitled to a standardized beer serving since the Magna Carta of 1215, it wasn’t until 1824 that a British law standardized the Imperial unit. Since the pandemic changed consumers’ alcohol habits, British pubs have been closing at a rate of roughly 4 per day.

🇬🇧 The Royal Mint has unveiled a coin commemorating the 80^th anniversary of D-Day, the largest amphibious assault in history, that took place in France on June 6, 1944. Heads of state from around the world are expected to attend military ceremonies next week.

🇫🇷 Meanwhile, the French postal service has released a scratch-and-sniff stamp that smells like freshly baked bread.

🗓️ Join the World Affairs Council of Atlanta for a Members Forum Salon: Exploring The Geopolitics of Global South on Wed., Jun 5. 

4. Eight highly anticipated summer restaurants opening around Atlanta

🔥 Rough Draft continues to track the progress of some of this year’s hotly anticipated restaurants and bars.

We’ve already seen some big restaurant openings in 2024, including Mexican restaurant Casa Balam in Decatur from the owners of Oaxaca, the return of The Porter Beer Bar in Little Five Points, and Chef Kevin Gillespie’s Nàdair opening in the former Floataway Cafe space.

Since our last anticipated restaurants update dropped in February, Damsel, Painted Pickle, and Floridaman have opened, and the openings of Gene’s in East Lake and Pure Quill Superette in Edgewood appear imminent. 

♨️ See the full list here. 

🫒 Savor the flavors of Food That Rocks on June 6 at City Springs! Enjoy all-inclusive food and drinks from a diverse array of Sandy Springs restaurants, live music, and a chance to “Party with a Purpose.” Buy your tickets today!

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5. ‘Furiosa’ and hope in the time of the apocalypse 

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🏍️ When it comes to action filmmaking, “Mad Max: Fury Road” upped the game in 2015. If anything can be universally agreed upon by critics and audiences alike, it has to be this. George Miller’s action opus is a thrill ride like no other, a nonstop chase movie of post-apocalyptic proportions that roars with a fury fitting of its name. 

So, “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” Miller’s follow-up to “Fury Road,” had a lot resting on its shoulders. And from the jump, it’s clear Miller has no interest in simply repeating what he achieved in 2015. 

“Furiosa” operates on a much larger scale than “Fury Road,” not just following one woman’s mission via car chase, but attempting to unpack her history, her trauma, and her life over the span of roughly two and a half hours. As impressive as the scale of the film can be, sometimes the sheer colossal ambition of it all can overpower the film’s emotional core, particularly in the film’s midsection. But through the relationship between Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) and her biggest foe, a warlord named Dementus (Chris Hemsworth), Miller gets to the crux of our relationship to hope – why it disappears, why it perseveres, and what we’re willing to do to keep it. 

🦾 Read Sammie’s full review here. 

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🎫 According to Variety, “Furiosa” underperformed at the box office, with this holiday weekend shaping up to be the worst in 30 years.

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